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1660 episodes transcribedThe United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, says more than 60 countries around the world are using COVID-19 as an excuse to skirt international law by c...
We asked for your questions on navigating love and dating during the pandemic. Therapist and sexologist Lexx Brown-James has answers. She's joined by...
The pandemic economy has left different people in vastly different situations. Today, we introduce four American indicators — people whose paths will...
The Biden administration has set a goal: a majority of public schools open "at least one day a week" by the 100th day of his presidency. But it's poss...
In the weeks after Jan. 6. insurrection, even top Republicans like Mitch McConnell said Donald Trump provoked the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, l...
Using data from several states that have published their own maps and lists of where vaccination sites are located, NPR identified disparities in the...
People of color experience more air and water pollution than white people and suffer the health impacts. The federal government helped create the prob...
Why does Whitney Houston's 1991 Super Bowl national anthem still resonate 30 years later? In this episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute, host Sam Sander...
The pandemic leveled live performance, and the industry is last in line for a return to normal. Musician Zoe Keating and production designer Terry Mor...
Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is one of President Biden's priorities with the newest COVID-19 relief package. But Republicans say it will hu...
A third COVID-19 vaccine could receive emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration this month. The vaccine made by Johnson & Joh...
For months, Myanmar's military party has claimed — without evidence — that its poor performance in the country's November parliamentary elections was...
This past week, President Biden signed executive orders that represent his administration's first actions in the fight against climate change. Some ch...
In 2019, GameStop seemed to be just another failing brick-and-mortar business. But a couple of internet dwellers at Wall Street Bets, in a strange cor...
There's is a reckoning happening across the media. Major news organizations are reconsidering what they cover and how. The Trump presidency is one big...
In its very first broadcast, the U.S.-government-run service called Voice of America pledged honesty."The news may be good and it may be bad. We shall...
President Biden said Tuesday that the federal government's vaccine distribution program is "in worse shape than we anticipated." His administration's...
Removing disinformation — and users who spread it — can come at a cost for web hosts and social media platforms. But studies indicate "deplatforming"...
Adam Jentleson knows firsthand how powerful a tool the filibuster can be — and what's possible without it. He was deputy chief of staff to former Neva...
Breathing is essential to life. And lately, the safety of the air we inhale, or the need to pause and take a deep breath, is on our minds a lot. In th...
